There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Will Gatti was born in London and worked in publishing before turning to teaching. His novels for children and teenagers have been published in Denmark, Holland, Italy and Germany. Will is now head of English at a secondary school in Surrey. Every summer, with his wife and two children, he goes to the family home in the west of Ireland to fish and to write.